"Chasing Amy" signaled a new Kevin Smith, or at least many thought so. Combining his skills for fart jokes and foul humor with a very well-written tale about relationships, the film still is my favorite of Smith's efforts. Coming after the raunchy, low-budget "Clerks" and the unfortunate failure of "Mallrats", "Amy" ended up being sort of the perfect combination of the two.

Ben Affleck and Jason Lee star as Banky and Holden, a couple of comic artists that draw "Bluntman and Chronic", a duo that, while they argue, get along enough to work together. Alyssa Jones(Joey Lauren Adams), a young comic artist, falls in love with Holden(Affleck). Soon, Holden discovers that Alyssa is a lesbian, and that Banky becomes angered with Holden's new relationship taking away from their work.

There are some wonderful moments in "Chasing Amy", both from the performances by Adams, Affleck and Jason Lee as well as the dialogue from Smith, which is both very funny and very honest. Of course, Smith and Jason Mewes pop up as Jay and Silent Bob - although Jay is still one of the funniest characters to hit the screen in quite a while, the fact that the two pop up towards the end instead of most of the movie seems appropriate here.

There are some minor little moments where "Amy" trips up, I think the majority of it is easily Smith's best work, with some great writing and acting.